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Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

— Helen Garner

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

— Lance Loud

An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.

— Scott Stossel

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

— Djuna Barnes

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

— Eli Roth

The first time I almost died was surfing: I got hit on the head with a board. I went under and started swimming until I hit the bottom of the ocean. I thought, 'Oh my God, I'm going the wrong way. Do I have enough air to get back up?' If you're a surfer, you know the feeling.

— Robert David Hall

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

— Kanye West

I just believe that sometimes in life you're like a shark - you have to keep moving through water; otherwise, you'll die.

— Michelle Ryan

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

— Winston Churchill

My life has been a series of emergencies.

— Lana Turner

✗Opposing Perspectives

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

— Vincent D'Onofrio